Rome Total War, fails to launch after installation.

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Rome Total War, fails to launch after installation.

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I've tried many times over the past few years to get RTW working under Wine, but I still have no luck.

I've managed to get it installed, and it seems correct, but it refuses to do anything when I start it. I'm currently trying Wine 1.5.31

All it says in the console when run is

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fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 2
and then immediately exits.

Anybody have any ideas?
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Re: Rome Total War, fails to launch after installation.

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"SecDrv" is the SafeDisc driver, so it may not run without a no-cd crack. That may or may not be legal where you live, and any further discussion about it is prohibited by forum rules. I will say that it is odd that none of the test reports or comments in the AppDB mention copy protection as an issue for this game.
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Re: Rome Total War, fails to launch after installation.

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Well, I actually figured a way around the SecDrv problem. I copied the file SECDRV.SYS manually from the CD to windows\system32\drivers folder. I guess it wasn't installing for some reason?

Now when I run it, it asks for the game CD, and once I put that it the game loads.

But, the graphics are horribly corrupted. The screen consists of huge red squares and the menu text is horribly corrupted.

In the console it says...

"err:quartz:GetClassMediaFile Media class not found
fixme:gstreamer:GST_QueryInterface No interface for {37d84f60-42cb-11ce-8135-00aa004bb851}!
fixme:gstreamer:GST_Connect Could not make source filter, are gstreamer-plugins-* installed for 32 bits?"

...about a million times.

I don't know if the graphical problems are caused by those errors, or maybe other things aren't being installed correctly too.

I probably should mention that during installation, after it says everything has installed, and I click quit, it freezes and I have to manually kill wine. Maybe that's got something to do with it too?

Any ideas?
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Re: Rome Total War, fails to launch after installation.

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You need to install 32 bit gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins-base (and possibly other 32 bit gstreamer-plugins); however, if you are on a newer distro that uses glib >= 2.32.0, that won't help, because winegstreamer is broken with newer glib. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30557. If that's your situation, then install native quartz and devenum and a windows codec pack.
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